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On Saturday 10 April 2010, Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 10 April 2010 16:32:37 Eray Aslan wrote: |
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> > On 10.04.2010 18:12, Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> > > That's very interesting, I have puzzled about STARTTLS stuff for years! |
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> > > How do I make sendmail trust the CAs? |
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> > This is neither necessary nor recommended for TLS. |
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> Why would that be? |
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> > > define(`CERT_DIR',`/etc/mail/certs') |
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> > > define(`confCACERT_PATH',`CERT_DIR') |
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> > > define(`confCACERT',`CERT_DIR/cacert.pem') |
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> > > define(`confSERVER_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') |
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> > > define(`confSERVER_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem') |
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> > > define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') |
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> > > define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem') |
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> > |
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> > These 3 files (cacert.pem, cert.pem, key.pem) are for your own server. |
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> > It has been awhile since I used sendmail, but adding CA certificates to |
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> > CACERT_PATH should make sendmail trust them. |
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> > Again, this is contrary to "best practices". Do not trust third party |
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> > CA certificates unnecessarily. It might come back and bite you. |
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> Can you please explain this? |
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I am curious too! |
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-Robin |
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Robin Atwood. |
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"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, |
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Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" |
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from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling |
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